Symphonies No. 3 The First Of May No. 9

Album by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich & Eliahu Inbal & Wiener Symphoniker

Symphonies Nos. 3 and 9 is a recording of orchestral works by Dmitri Dmitrievich Shostakovich, composed in 1929 and 1945 respectively. The music contrasts the early work's experimental and politically infused orchestral writing, which employs large forces and choral passages, with the later symphony's concise, classically oriented textures and ironic restraint, together illustrating a pivotal shift in Shostakovich's symphonic approach between the interwar and postwar periods.